[vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Ondrej Sluciak
I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and let them compute some problem in parallel (using message passing interface - MPI), is it really a parallel computation? I mean, when the host machine has only one

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Stealth
On Friday 12 December 2008 09:06:30 am Ondrej Sluciak wrote: I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and let them compute some problem in parallel (using message passing interface - MPI), is it really a

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Heinz Wiesinger
Stealth: On Friday 12 December 2008 09:06:30 am Ondrej Sluciak wrote: I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and let them compute some problem in parallel (using message passing interface - MPI), is it

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stealth wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 09:06:30 am Ondrej Sluciak wrote: I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and let them compute some problem in parallel (using message passing interface - MPI), is

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Stealth
On Friday 12 December 2008 09:38:46 am Heinz Wiesinger wrote: Stealth: On Friday 12 December 2008 09:06:30 am Ondrej Sluciak wrote: I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and let them compute some

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Ondrej Sluciak
Thank you for your answers. It is as I thought. I tested performance of 2 VMs on one single core host computer, but as Stealth said, there has been no increase in speed. I tried to parallely compute the multiplication of two huge matrices, but the time spent on computation was just the same as

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Marc Beck
I doubt that even with multiple cores it will make any improvements. That's because the way the multicore OS is designed. Basically, as far as I know, the load is not shared in such a way that one application would run on one pc, and a second one on the other. On top of that, from the host

[vbox-users] Clean shutdown when Windows reboots...

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Ford
Hi, I'm using VBox 2.0.6 on a Vista laptop (it's a demo machine, running an OpenSuSE virtual to show off a web app we are making), and I was wondering if there is a way to hook a VBoxManager controlvm command into Vista's shutdown sequence to make it save state when the laptop shuts down (eg.

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
Marc, On Friday 12 December 2008, Marc Beck wrote: I doubt that even with multiple cores it will make any improvements. That's because the way the multicore OS is designed. Basically, as far as I know, the load is not shared in such a way that one application would run on one pc, and a

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Marc Beck
We are talking here about VirtualBox, not about a hypervisor, so if you are correct, I would be glad to see some documentation about this. Thanks Marc 972-800-2150 www.Amazingcomputing.biz -Original Message- From: vbox-users-boun...@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Marc Beck
Sorry if I offended anybody, or sounded as a know-it-all, I am sure Frank knows ways more than I do. Just trying to understand. From the question I take we are talking of a virtual box, running on top of a Host. As I was told, no matter what, the host is in-between the virtual machines and the

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 12 December 2008, Marc Beck wrote: We are talking here about VirtualBox, not about a hypervisor, so if you are correct, I would be glad to see some documentation about this. This has nothing to do with being a hypervisor or not. Just have a look at the source code, it is freely

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 12 December 2008, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: Are there any plans to emulate multicore processor inside VBox ? I mean if host computer has multiple cores - single VBox guest instance will see ( and will be able to run multiple processes on them ) some of the cores not one (correct me

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Ondruška
Speaking of Christmas reminds me to wish you Merry Christmas. And many thanks for bringing Virtualbox on Mac. This version 2.0 is really good--I have replaced Parallels 3 (ie no more upgrade of Parallels...). Peter 2008/12/12, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com: On Friday 12 December 2008,

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Pablo Sanchez
On Friday 12 December 2008 at 12:24 pm, Peter Ondru?ka penned about Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines Speaking of Christmas reminds me to wish you Merry Christmas. Yes, happy holidays to the entire VirtualBox team. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Peter Ondruška peter.ondru...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of Christmas reminds me to wish you Merry Christmas. And many thanks for bringing Virtualbox on Mac. This version 2.0 is really good--I have replaced Parallels 3 (ie no more upgrade of Parallels...). Peter

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 at 12:24 pm, Peter Ondru?ka penned about Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines Speaking of Christmas reminds me to wish you Merry Christmas. Yes, happy holidays to the entire VirtualBox team. Cheers, Yes Happy Christmas to